Displaying device for boots, shoes, and the like foot-coverings.



G l-OVER. DISPLAYDEVIGE FOB BOOTS, SHOES, ANDTHE LIKE FOOT OQVERINGS.

APPLIOATIFON FILED FEB; 18, 1908.

919,158. Patented-Apr."20,1909.

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A. GLOVER.

DISPLAY DEVICE FOR BOOTS, SHOES, AND THE LIKE FOOT GOV-BRINGS. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 18 1908.

919,158. Patented Apr. 20, 1909.

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"UNITED STATES PATENT orrroiiz.

ALFRED GLOVER, OF KINGSTON-UPON-HULL, ENGLAND.

DISPLAYING DEVICE FOR BOOTS, SHOES, AND THE LIKE FOOT-COVERINGS.

Application filed February 18, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED GLovER, a citizen of Great Britain, residing at Kingston-upondlull, in the county of York, England, boot and shoe dealer, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Displaying Devices for Boots, Shoes, and the Like Foot-Coverings, of which the following is .a specification.

lily invention has reference to displaying devices for boots, shoes and the like foot coverings and relates particularly to that class of device which is in the form of a stand or sup ort provided with a clip for clipping and olding the boot, shoe or the like to be displayed, which clip is mounted on the ball of a ball and socket joint, or on a part of any suitable form of universal joint 'which allows of the clip being moved to a variety of positions so that the boot or the like held thereby can be displayed in almost any desired position, my invention having for its object to provide an improved clipping device whereby pivoted levers hitherto employed for gripping the boot or the like, are dispensed with, the main feature of my invention consisting in making the clip ing pieces slidable whereby the device will so adapt itself as to clip and more securely hold different sizes and shapes of boots, shoes and the like suitable for a man, woman or child thereby dispensing with the necessity for employing a number of stands or supports having different sizes of clips for different sizes of foot coverings.

A further object of my invention is to provide means for automatically locking the clipping pieces at any given point so that when they close on the waist of the boot or the like they are locked in their closed position and securely hold such boot or the ike, this locking of the clipping pieces when employed, dispensing with the necessity for employing a strong spring, or strong springs for imparting the required grip of the clip on the article, thereby minimizing the liability of injury to the material of which the boot or the like is made.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of my improved device, the clipping ieces being shown in their open or expands boot or the like; Figs. 2 and 3 are end and plan views respectivelyof Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a plan view of the device showing the clipping pieces in their normal or closed positions;

Specification of Letters Patent.

positions ready for clipping a.

Patented April 20, 1909.

Serial No. 416,633.

Fig. 5 is an underside view of Fig. 3; Fig. 6

is a side view of a slightly modified form of device Figs. 7 and 8 are end and plan views respectively of same; Fig. 9 is a sectional view on the line 1-2 of Fig. 8, and Fig. 10 is a perspective view of the device illustrated at Figs. 6, 7, 8 and 9 applied to a boot for displaying purposes.

For the purpose of my invention I employ two sliding clipping pieces A and A the outer ends of which are bent upwardly and then inwardly so as to form a pair of jaws a and a the edges of which may in one form be toothed, or in another form plain and covered with rubber or any suitable material or substance for the purpose of preventing in jury to the material of which the boot or the like is made. These clipping pieces are carried by a base plate B which is secured to any suitable form of stand or support. In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated such base plate as being mounted on a ball C which is engaged by a split socket made up of two pieces D and D one of the pieces (D) being in one piece with or attached to a suitable rod or the like E which constitutes the stand or support when provided with a base piece on which it can stand, or with a clipping device or other arrangement whereby it can be clipped or otherwise secured to a projection or to a shelf or other suitable form of support, the other iece (D being a loose one, the two pieces being nipped up to grip the ball C by means of a screw F which passes throu h a preferably plain hole in the loose piece 1 and screws into a threaded hole in the fast piece D so that the ball can be securely gripped and the. base B and the clipping pieces A and. A which slide thereon can be set at any suitable angle so that the object being displayed can be shown in a variety of positions.

The clipping pieces slide to and fro on the base plate B as before mentioned so that they can open out sufficiently far togrip the waists of boots or the like of different sizes, and such clipping pieces are prevented from lifting off the base plate and caused to work true thereon by any suitable means, one means consisting of providing the base plate with longitudinal slits or openings B and B in which the inner ends or tails of the clipping pieces work, said tails being bent in a down ward direction to pass through the openings in the base plate, the downturned' ends having side enlargements cf which project under the ed es of the ion itudinal o enin s B and b u v x B and of providing guides on the base part B said uides be1n in the form of enlar ements 6 bent 111 such. a manner as to overlap the ed es of the all 31n nieces but uides a g 3: .L 1 t) may also be formed on too clipping pieces themselves and overlap the edges of the base part, the accompanying drawings showmg both the base part and the clipping pieces provided with guides.

The clipping pieces may be caused by any suitable means to automatically close on the waist of the boot or the like, one means oonsisting of a piece of spring wire, or of a spring strip in the form of a coil G with two straight ends g and g, the coiled part encircling the neck of the ball C of the joint and being so fixed as to be nrevented from rotating, or being secured to any suitable fixed point, the two ends being connected to the bases of the clipping pieces or to projections thereon, the spring being in tension when the clipping pieces are drawn apart so that its tendency is to contract and draw the. clipping pieces together.

The clipping pieces may be caused to work in unison so as to open and close simultaneously by means of a connecting bar or lever H 01' the equivalent thereof which is pivoted to the base plate B or to a separate plate J which is rive-ted or otherwise sec n'ed to the base plate, which latter is the form. I have illustrated at Figs. 8, a and 5 of the drawings, said connecting bar or lever having preterably two downwardly projecting ends 7t, h which pass through radial or other suitable holes a and a, one in each of the clipping pieces A and A or are pivoted to or otherwise suitably engage such clipping pieces. If this bar or the like is employed, the two ends 9', g of the spring for bringing the clipping pieces together may be connected to the two projecting ends of such bar, or if spiral springs are employed, the free ends of springs may be connected one to one tion (71) and the other to the projection hi, the pull on the projections causing the closing of the clipping pie-co as however, the bar or the like causes the clipping pieces to wort; in unison, a pull on one only of the projections would be suilicient to cause the clouing in of such clipping pieces.

F or the purpose of locking the eligpieces when they are closed to grip the w aist of the boot or the like being displayed, l provide one of the outer edges of the ba 3 part, or one of the edges of one of the longi udinal holes in such base part (if longitudinal holes are formed) with teeth 5 the accompanying drawings at Figs. 3, a and 5 showing the teeth formed on one edge of the holes in the base plate, and l pivot to one of the clipping pieces a lever catch K the nose of which engages with the teeth 5 on the base plate, said catch 5 K having a spring 7r formed on it which bears against a projection Z61 on the clipping piece and keeps the nose of the catch in engagement with the teeth 6 said catch having if desired, a finger plate k which on being pressed causes the nose part to leave the teeth when the clipping pieces are required to be drawn apart.

In the modified form of device illustrated at Figs. 6, 7, 8 and 9 of the drawings, the bar H for causing the clipping pieces A and A to work in unison is dispensed with and. a toothed wheel H so mounted on the base plate B as to be capable of rotating f" ely, is substituted for it. The plates of the 311,. ing pieces A, A are situated one above the other and have elongated slots B B in them, the metal at one side of each slot having teeth I) if for the teeth on the wheel H to mesh with. The base plate B has its sides turned over the plates of the clip; ng pieces and the edge of one side is provided with teeth 0 and the spring actuated catch K has teeth k at one side to engage with the teeth on the edge of the base plate.

With my improved device not only wil the clip hold different sizes and shapes of boots and the like, but with the locking device embodied will hold them more securely than existing devices for a similar purpose and with the least possible liability of injury to the surface of the object hold, such locking device dispensing with the necessity for emp-roying violent springs for imparting to the clip the necess "y grip for holding the boot or the like.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. in a shoe-stand, the combination, with a base-plate provided with a toothed rack, of two jaws for the shoe provided with slides carried by the said base g'ilate, a conpling-device con ting the said slides so that they slide in op osite directions siin l onsly, and a catch pivoted to one of t e said slides and engaging with the said reek.

2. in a shoe-stand, the combination, with a base-plate provided with. a toothed racl; and raving two longitudinal opt ings arranged side by side, of two jaws for engaging the shoe provided with slides having projections which engage with the said openings, a coupling-device pivoted to the base-plate between its said openings and connected at its op osite ends with the said slides, and a catch pivoted to one of the said slides and engaging with the said rack.

In testimon whereof I atllr; my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ALFRED G-LQVER.

l Vitnesses:

LOUIS E. KIPPAX, FRED. H. Rnones. 

